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got better

got better is the simple past and past participle of get better.

Meaning of get better

Verb

get better (third-person singular simple present gets better, present participle getting better, simple past got better, past participle (UK) got better or (US) gotten better)

  1. (intransitive, literally) To improve.
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To recover from illness or other incapacitation.
    • [Sir Bedevere]: What makes you think she's a witch?
      [Peasant]: Well, she turned me into a newt!
      [Sir Bedevere]: A newt?
      [Peasant]: ... I got better.1975 from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail (quotes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail on Wikiquote)

Questions about got better

What is got better the simple past and past participle of?
Got better is the simple past and past participle of get better.

Words near got better in the dictionary

  1. got back at
  2. got back on the horse that bucked one
  3. got back to
  4. got behind
  5. got bent out of shape
  6. got better
  7. got between
  8. got blood from a stone
  9. got blood from a turnip
  10. got blood out of a stone
  11. got busy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: got better (page history and authors); get better (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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